Examining the Extinction of the Barbary Lion and Its Implications for Felid Conservation

Moroccan Royal Lions have been described as “an obvious relic of the original Barbary lion gene pool” [20 ... doi 10.1556/AArch.59.2008.2.28. 29. Gippoliti S (2012) Ex situconservation programmes in European zoological gardens: Can we afford to ...

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction •
18 years ago

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/html.cfm/index225610EN.html

1-megawatt cold fusion power plant now available – yours for just $1.5 million

Believe it or not, the first cold fusion power plant is now available to pre-order ... priced fairly reasonably at $1.5 million. Has cold fusion — the answer to all our energy needs — finally made its way to market? E-Cat, or Energy Catalyzer to ...

Microbes Could Colonize Mars By Hitchhiking On Spacecraft, Research Suggests (VIDEO)

Astrobiology Vol 12, No 5, 2012.] Using the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) mounted on the International Space Station, scientists exposed the bacteria to a simulated Mars atmosphere. They also subjected the bacteria to various space ...

Editor’s note: This seems to be a new idea popping up in fundamentalist Christianity that you have to keep your love-interest somehow ‘pure’ for their future husband or wife. A bunch of extra Biblical extrapolation is what it seems like from here ...

Science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles, wrote the foreword to the recent special "space" issue of National Geographic. Bradbury wrote about Mars ('natch). From his essay: In 1976 I was invited to stay overnight at the Jet ...

David Pescovitz •
Boing Boing (blog) •
9 years ago

http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/ray-bradbury-on-mars.html

The 10 Best Songs About New Beginnings

In honor of a new year, here is a list of songs that can help nudge even the idlest of souls off the couch in 2015. 12 Next page [5 - 1] It’s always nice to think that if you had a lackluster 2014, you can wipe the slate clean in 2015. A new year means a ...

She’s not still wearing the cuffs, so I assume she was able to slip her hand free. She avoids the DEATH! DEATH TO THOSE WHO DEFILE METALLICAR! for the moment. Kate thinks she can reason with her sister, but Tasha is the Alpha of this pack. She …

Set List: Grateful Dead, Fare Thee Well - Night 2; Salutes From President Obama and the Empire State Building

Obama is quite familiar with the Dead. They played for his campaign in 2008 and were guests at the White House the next year. To honor the band coming to an end as a working entity, he also issued a special message, saying "Here's to fifty years of the ...

In brief, although substantial progress has been made in the field of non-viral gene therapy over the past three decades ... editing using non-viral delivery vectors. In principle, non-viral vectors that carry genome editing systems are highly appealing ...